Funding for your Business R&D. There is funding out there for businesses to help with R&D

There is funding out there for businesses to help with R&D. Below are some of the government run opportunities and this link will give you much more information. But you should consult your accountant before applying for any of these schemes. You need to have sound and easily demonstrable plans and expected outcomes.

Innovate UK provides many opportunities each year for R&D grant funding, throughout 2016/17 a total of £561m is available in growth funding to support the following sectors:

Industry Focus Budget First Deadline Open Programme £71m June 2016 Manufacturing and Materials £137m July 2016 Infrastructure Systems £150m July 2016 Health and Life Sciences £117m September 2016 Emerging and Enabling Technologies £86m October 2016

Other funding opportunitiesThe Energy Efficiency Fund - A new £7m fund to help small UK businesses replace old, energy-intensive equipment in order to boost efficiency and productivity.

Horizon 2020 DSI - Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over seven years. Horizon 2020 funds high-potential innovation through a dedicated SME instrument.

Eurostars - The only European funding programme to be specifically dedicated to support R&D performing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in their innovative R&D projects.